Combined receipt and record book



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(No Model.)

HQ LOEWENBAGH.

COMBINED EEGEIET AND EEGOEE BooK. No. 436,983. Patented Sept. 23, 1890.

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H. LOEWENBAGH. COMBINED RECEIPT AND EEGOED BooK.

.NO- 436,983. Patented Sept. 23', 1890.

UNITED 'STATES' PATENT OFFICE.

HUGO LOEW'ENBACH, OF MILWAUKEE, VISOONSIN.

COMBINED RECEIPT AND RECORD BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 436,983,dated September 23, 1890. `Application led December Q, 1889. Serial No. 333,043. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: Y

Be it known that I, HUGO LonwnNBAcH, of

Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and

in the State of Wisconsin,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Receipt and Record Books; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to receipt and record books; and it consists incertain peculiarities of construction, as will be fully set forth hereinafter, and subsequently claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a representation of one form of my present device shown open and with one leaf removed. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is a view, similar to Fig.- l, of another form of my device. Figs. 4 and 5 represent still another yform of my present invention.

My present invention is in part an improvement on that set forth in my prior patent, No. 390,087, dated September 25, 1888, and like that my present devices are composed of blank leaves of thin paper to be used with sheets of carbon transfer-paper for the production of manifold copies, such as are used by merchants, manufacturers, and others in shipping freight and express matter; but my present devices differ from those shown in said patent., inasmuch as instead of having a certain proportion of the leaves extending the entire width of the book, I now arrange my leaves in groups or series of groups, each group having one or more leaves of the same width asthe corresponding leaves in the other groups, and one leaf of somewhat less width than the corresponding leaf in the next group, and so on throughout the entire book or entire number of groups in a series, as the case may be, and as hereinafter more specifically described.

A A represent the covers of a bound book to which my various leaves are shown stitched, though it will be understood that said leaves may, if preferred, be attached to only one cover, forming a pad, block, or tablet.

In Figs. 1 and 2 I show what I term a triplicate book, and in Figs. 3, 4, and 5 what I call duplicate books; but it will be understood that I may construct triplicate books of the pattern shown in Figs. 4 and,

vertical row of perforations or indentations b,

adjacent tothe inner edge of said leaf B', so as to leave a narrow strip b when the said leaf B has been removed, and next to this detachable leaf B in the triplicate form, or

directly next 4the permanent leaf B in the i duplicate form, I have a wider detachable leaf C, which is provided with a vertical row of perforations or indentations c, near its inner edge, so as to leave a narrow stub c when said leaf O has been removed. This arrangement of leaves B B C, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or B C, as shown in Fig. 8, constitutes one of the before-named groups, and in the said figures the next succeeding group of leaves is shown arranged in the same manner, except that the lower detachable leaf C of this next group is shown wider than the and narrower than the corresponding leaf C of the next succeeding group, and so on to the end of the book or block. If there are to be a great number of groups in any one book or block,the necessary result of this arrangement would be to make the latter leaves O of very considerable width, and when this may not be desirable, I prefer Jto-modify this arrangement, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, wherein the lower detachable leaves C of a series of groups (say five, more or less, in number) are cut o at one corner, as shown at a a a, while the corresponding lower detachable leaves AC of the next series of groups (of an equal number) extend the full length at their outer edge, While the third series of groups would be similarly cut off at one corner, as indicated by the dotted line in the lower right-hand corner in Fig. 5, and the fourth series of groups would extend the full length at said outer edge, and so on, alternately, throughout the entire book or block.

The advantage of having the lower detach- IOO able leaf C of each group in a series, or the greater portion of such leaf of a different width than that of the other corresponding leaves C of the other groups in the said series lies in the fact that the different groups are thereby more readily separable to find any particular group before the detachable leaves are torn out, as only the leaves C will have to be turned or lifted, instead of possibly all the leaves written upon, to iind the particular group to be partly detached, thereby still further economizing time at a freight or other shipping oiiice.

The use of my device is obvious, and its operation practically the saine as in my prior patent hereinbefore referred to, and hence I do not deem it necessary to further describe the same, nor to illustrate the ordinarysheets of carbon transfer-paper intended to be used with my devices.

Having thus described my invention, what I cla-im as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a carbon copying receipt and record book, a series of blank leaves of thin paper arranged in groups, the upper leaf of each group being a narrow permanent leaf, and the under leaf of each group being a wider detachable leaf, the said lower wide detachable leaf of each succeeding group extending beyond the line of extension of the corresponding leaf in the preceding group, substantially as set forth.

2. In a carbon copying receipt and record book, a series of groups of blank leaves of thin paper bound or stitched together, the upper leaf of each group being a narrow permanent leaf, and the under leaf of each group being a wider detachable leaf, the said lower wide detachable leaf of each succeeding group extending beyond the line of extension of the corresponding leaf in the preceding group in that series, substantially as set forth.

3. In a carbon copying receipt and record book, a series of groups of blank leaves of t-hin paper bound or stitched together, the upper leaf of each group being a narrow permanent leaf, and the under leaf of each group being a wider detachable leaf, the said lower wide detachable leaf of each succeeding group extending beyond the line of extension of the corresponding leaf in the preceding group in vthat series, and all of the said wide detachable leaves in each alternate series of groups being cut olf or shortened, while the corresponding leaves of the other series of groups extend the full length at their outer' edges, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set myhand, at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

HUGO LOEWENBACII.

Witnesses:

Il. G. UNDERWooD, WM. KLUG. 

